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A tourist touches ribbons with messages wishing for reunification of the two Koreas tied to a barded wire fence at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak gathered his national security leaders for strategic talks Tuesday as troops braced for possible North Korean retaliation a day after conducting artillery drills on Yeonpyeong island the North bombed last month. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)